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Originally posted by T. A. Gardner:
You might also note that the Germans formed a specialist unit (Oil Brigade Caucasus) with a strength of 10,704 men, including many specialists, 1142 vehicles, and 6 aircraft.
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[engineer joke mode on]TA, did your oil brigade include Red Adair? No? Then no Baku oil [engineer joke mode off]
http://www.redadair.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Adair
http://www.nndb.com/people/731/000022665/
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Originally posted by Kai Petri:
I suppose Hitler should have bombed the baku etc area to kingdom come as the operation Blau begun.
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Kai, how long did the Ploesti fields take to come back on line after being bombed? How long did the German refineries take to be completely silenced? Baku is not a derrick in the middle of the steppe, it's a
monster oil field spread along several quare kilometers.
Here's a view of
one field.
http://www.7is7.com/otto/travel/phot...oilfields2.jpg
Taking into consideration the growing requirements in oil, the oil workers of Baku reached the record level of oil extraction in 1941 – 23.482 million tons.
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By the autumn of 1942 764 wells were stopped and prepared for destruction and 81 sets of drilling equipment together with the personnel were sent to Turkmenia. At the same time, Baku provided the front with oil, restoring and exploiting the old wells.
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In accordance with the decision of the State Defence Committee about 11 thousand oil specialists and a great number of equipment were evacuated from Baku to Tataristan, Bashgiria and other regions of Russia in October 1942.
http://window2baku.com/eng/9oil3.htm
They stopped 764 wells and kept on producing, while alternate sources were being developed. How were you going to destroy this, with more Goering promises? [img]tongue.gif[/img]